Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-21
FOR CON- NERCIAL UNION.
ADVANTAGES OF UNION BETWEEN
0NIrEcsT4TEsA AND CANADA,

Hon, Erastus wiuan Discusses tho Prop.
%csition Before = Large Audience at
Rochester-An obiiteration OF Tarih
Between the Two Countries.
ROCHESTER. N. Y, Nov ia large
audience greeted the appearances OF
Erastus Wiman. OF New York, and Hon
beni Butterworth, of Cincinnati, in the
common courcii chamber, the occasion
being a discussion OF commercial unIon
With Canada Mayor Parsons presided
and introduced mir. Wiman who spoke
as follows
tIn days gou by the spirit OF advent
ure animated many men to take great
risk and endure many sacrifices to open
new fields Of trade. The discoveries
who sailed away into unknown seas,
With small craft and mutlnous crews.
with inadequate supplies and TO uncer
tain destinations. were giants in courage
to whom the worlds owes a debt create,
than IT has recognized Men ike Co
lumbus, Cabot, Magellan, Raleigh Cook
Drake and Franklin, deserve 10 be held
in grateful remembrance, and no. one
could guess what their labors accom-
plished In this country scope for this en-
terprise Is SO ample. the facilities for
business so great, and the field so la. &c
that it hitherto has been unnecessary to
go abroad to achieve success. But the
very opportunities that were offered us
had rather dulled the apprehension OF
those that remain untried. AS the re
suit of the struggle for American indie
p%endence, the continent of North Amer
lea was divided into Two parts. That
which WAS acquired by the United States
was less than one-half. But it has been
supposed that the larger area included in
the Canadian territory, was, by It's
geographical location, so far to the north
that its value was slight as compared
with the smaller area covered by thu
United States. This impression has been
confirmed by the fact that while one
half of the continent included in the re
public has grown with great rapidity,
until its population increased to sixty
millions, the northern halt of the cont.
nent, under British rule, has increased
very slowly n has a population oil
barely five millions. The result of the
comparison between the two portions o,
the continent as to their relative progress.
aside from population, is in the same,
direction, and would leave the impress.
sion that, owing either to the influence
of monarchial institutions in America, or
its extreme northern location, or its lack
of resources, the greater half of the con
tinent, not included in the United States.
has been sadly left behind, but it is by
no means certain that any of these causes
may be attributed to the relatively slow
growth of the northern part of the con.
tinent.n
The speaker said that he came to them,
not as a ~discoverer, who had been sent
out, or navigator that was bringing them
news of a new land, but rather as a
native of a country, the existence of
which they know, but beyond that they
know littie. He had come burdened
with a message to tell them of the. land
of his birth, the great continent of
Canada. which, though almost in sight,
was unknown to them. He then pro-
ceeded to describe the area of Canada,
the location of the various provinces and
their peculiar relation and value to the
contiguous states. He claimed that
Canada was rich by nature, but poor by
policy, and that it was certainly not be-
cause she was poor in resources that the
eleven great provinces were not compar-
able with the eleven great states that are
situated along the 1900 miles of border
land between the two great countries.
He said it was because of barriers
to which two benitcent gov
ernments have set up between the two |
nations. that the advantage OF a great
development to the north has been denied
to this portion of the United States. To-
ward the accomplishment of the break
ing down of these barriers is the move
ment in behalf of commercial union. The
time seems opportune and the circum-
stances favorable. 1t is proposed that
the tariff between Canada and the United
States should be obliterated, and that
both. as to tariff against the outside
world, and internal revenue changes, the
same uniform rates should prevail. Mr..
iWiman concluded his address with an
appeal to his audience to aid all they
could in peaceful conquest of the re-
sources and trade of the great land to the
north, a conquest OF commerce., Illus
trating the sentiment that peace hath
her victories noless renowned than war;
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